Contributors
- Contributors
Jane Alison is the author of four novels—The Love-Artist and The Marriage of the Sea (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2001, 2003); Natives and Exotics (Harcourt 2005); and Nine Island (Catapult 2016). She has also published a memoir, The Sisters Antipodes (Houghton 2009), and Change Me, translations of Ovid’s stories of sexual transformation (Oxford 2014). She is Professor and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia (www.janealisonauthor.com).
Aikaterini Grigoriadou was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. In Spring 2016, she completed a bachelor of music performance with a minor in anthropology from Georgia State University, Summa cum Laude, and with Advanced and Research Honors. She also completed an honors thesis, “The Artistic Contributions of Women in Antiquity: Art and Spirituality in the Works of Sappho and Hildegard.” In addition to her studies at GSU, Grigoriadou holds four more diplomas in music with excellence in violin and harmony from the Municipal Conservatory of Thessaloniki, in monody from the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki, and in counterpoint from Melodia Conservatory in Thessaloniki. At GSU, she was awarded the Peter Harrower Scholarship, the AHEPA Scholarship, the Aileen and Chris Valianos Music Scholarship, and the first Student Paper Undergraduate Award from the Center for Hellenic Studies for “The Destruction of Smyrna and its Artistic Legacy.” Grigoriadou is pursuing a master’s degree in anthropology at GSU. Grigoriadou’s current research interest is on the lived experiences of crisis among artists, and especially musicians, in Thessaloniki.
Gregory Jusdanis is Distinguished Humanities Professor at the Ohio State University. He is the author of The Poetics of Cavafy: Eroticism, Textuality, History (1987), Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature (1991), The Necessary Nation (2001), Fiction Agonistes: In Defense of Literature (2010), and A Tremendous Thing: Friendship from the Iliad to the Internet (2014).
Mike Lippman is an assistant professor of practice in classics and religious studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He specializes in ancient drama, particularly Aristophanes. [End Page 133]
Anne McClanan is a professor of Byzantine art history at Portland State University. She studied at Harvard (PhD 1998), the Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities and excavated Roman and medieval sites in Turkey, Jordan, and Israel and lived in Greece. She has published a book analyzing images of early Byzantine empresses and edited an anthology on Iconoclasm (published as well in Chinese translation) and another anthology on the material culture of sex, procreation, and marriage.
Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature. His books include the novel The Museum of Innocence and the memoir Istanbul.
Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. holds the William M. Suttles Chair in Religious Studies and teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University. He has also served as Director of the GSU Center for Hellenic Studies since 2012. His work focuses on the religions of the ancient Mediterranean as well as the long influence of classical literature and philosophy on later cultural formations, especially in the areas of ethics and politics, sexuality, drama, and the visual arts. His latest book, Report on the Aeginetan Marbles with Historical Supplements, will be published by the SUNY Press later this year.
Gonda Van Steen earned a BA and an MA in classics in her native Belgium and a PhD in classics and Hellenic studies from Princeton. As the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, she teaches courses in ancient and modern Greek language and literature. Her research interests include classical drama, French travelers to Greece and the Ottoman Empire, nineteenth- and twentieth-century receptions of the classics, and modern Greek intellectual history. Van Steen’s first book, Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece, was published by Princeton UP in 2000 and was awarded the John D. Criticos Prize from the London Hellenic Society. In her 2010 Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire, revolutionary uses of Aeschylus’s Persians (1820s) and the Venus de Milo take center stage. Van Steen recently published Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands (OUP 2011), which discusses the ancient tragedies that were produced by the political prisoners of the Greek Civil War. She is working on a book that analyzes theater...
